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==Introduction==

The original speakers of Magellanican, the Yamik people, originated from the Rutheri region of Magellanica which borders the Heart Sea. From about one thousand years ago it became the lingua franca of the entire area surrounding the Heart Sea, and then the entire continent following the advent of smallpox in the 16th Century. Magellanican is a language isolate and has no traceable genealogical relation to any other language, ancient or modern. It ~~is believed~~ however to form ~~an ancient~~ sprachbund with its neighbours, sharing such features as a bisyllabic root structure, primary stress on the first syllable~~, consonant gradation,~~ and the opposition of voiceless plosives vs voiced fricatives or approximants. The dialect described below is the standard variety promulgated by the Magellanican Technocratic Commonwealth.

The original speakers of Magellanican, the Yamik people, originated from the Rutheri region of Magellanica which borders the Heart Sea. From about one thousand years ago it became the lingua franca of the entire area surrounding the Heart Sea, and then the entire continent following the advent of smallpox in the 16th Century. Magellanican is a language isolate and has no traceable genealogical relation to any other language, ancient or modern. It does however form a sprachbund with its neighbours, sharing such features as a bisyllabic root structure, primary stress on the first syllable and the opposition of voiceless plosives vs voiced fricatives or approximants. The dialect described below is the standard variety promulgated by the Magellanican Technocratic Commonwealth.

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 ==Introduction==
-The original speakers of Magellanican, the Yamik people, originated from the Rutheri region of Magellanica which borders the Heart Sea. From about one thousand years ago it became the lingua franca of the entire area surrounding the Heart Sea, and then the entire continent following the advent of smallpox in the 16th Century. Magellanican is a language isolate and has no traceable genealogical relation to any other language, ancient or modern. It is believed however to form an ancient sprachbund with its neighbours, sharing such features as a bisyllabic root structure, primary stress on the first syllable, consonant gradation, and the opposition of voiceless plosives vs voiced fricatives or approximants. The dialect described below is the standard variety promulgated by the Magellanican Technocratic Commonwealth.
+The original speakers of Magellanican, the Yamik people, originated from the Rutheri region of Magellanica which borders the Heart Sea. From about one thousand years ago it became the lingua franca of the entire area surrounding the Heart Sea, and then the entire continent following the advent of smallpox in the 16th Century. Magellanican is a language isolate and has no traceable genealogical relation to any other language, ancient or modern. It does however form a sprachbund with its neighbours, sharing such features as a bisyllabic root structure, primary stress on the first syllable  and the opposition of voiceless plosives vs voiced fricatives or approximants. The dialect described below is the standard variety promulgated by the Magellanican Technocratic Commonwealth.
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